Patrick L. Holland (born 1971) is the Conkey P. Whitehead Professor of Chemistry at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. Holland's research focuses on low-coordinate and high-spin

coordination complexes A coordination complex consists of a central atom or ion, which is usually metallic and is called the ''coordination centre'', and a surrounding array of bound molecules or ions, that are in turn known as ''ligands'' or complexing agents. Many m ...

of iron and cobalt, that react with small molecules such as

alkenes In organic chemistry, an alkene is a hydrocarbon containing a carbon–carbon double bond. Alkene is often used as synonym of olefin, that is, any hydrocarbon containing one or more double bonds.H. Stephen Stoker (2015): General, Organic, an ...

arenes Aromatic compounds, also known as "mono- and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons", are organic compounds containing one or more aromatic rings. The parent member of aromatic compounds is benzene. The word "aromatic" originates from the past grouping ...

, and N₂.

Early life and education

Holland was born in 1971 in Pennsylvania. During his childhood, he lived in Ohio until he was 12, when his family moved to Florida. Holland attended

Terry Parker High School Terry Parker High School is a public high school in the Duval County Public School district, located in Jacksonville, Florida. The school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2005. The school has been named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.http: ...

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, graduating in 1989. He then attended

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

, graduating with his A.B. in 1993. Following graduation, Holland pursued graduate studies at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

with Prof.

Robert G. Bergman Robert George Bergman is an American chemist. He is Professor of the Graduate School and Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Early life and education Born in Chicago, Robert Bergm ...

and Prof. Richard A. Andersen, earning his Ph.D. in 1997. At Berkeley, Holland synthesized

cyclopentadienyl Cyclopentadienyl can refer to *Cyclopentadienyl anion, or cyclopentadienide, **Cyclopentadienyl ligand *Cyclopentadienyl radical, • *Cyclopentadienyl cation, See also *Pentadienyl In organic chemistry, pentadienyl refers to the organic radic ...

nickel complexes with

amido In organic chemistry, an amide, also known as an organic amide or a carboxamide, is a compound with the general formula , where R, R', and R″ represent organic groups or hydrogen atoms. The amide group is called a peptide bond when it is p ...

, and alkoxo ligands. He then conducted postdoctoral studies as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. William Tolman at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

. In Tolman's group, Holland worked with coordination complexes of copper and O₂, and synthesized the first accurate synthetic models of type-1 copper sites in proteins.

Independent career

Holland began his independent career in 2000 at the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Roc ...

as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, and full Professor in 2010. In 2013, Holland moved to Yale University, where he is currently a Professor of Chemistry. In 2021, he was awarded the title Conkey P. Whitehead Professor of Chemistry.

Awards and memberships

Holland has been awarded multiple awards for his contributions to chemistry, including a

Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists was established in 2007 through a partnership between the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Leonard Blavatnik (Russian: Леонид Валентинович Блаватник), chairman of Access Indust ...

in 2013, a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation in 2016, a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2012, a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2003, and an

NSF CAREER Award The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...

in 2002. He was elected a Fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

in 2015. He has served on the Editorial Boards of '' Chemical Science'' and '' Chemical Society Reviews'' since 2019, and was previously on the Editorial Boards of ''

Inorganic Chemistry Inorganic chemistry deals with synthesis and behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds. This field covers chemical compounds that are not carbon-based, which are the subjects of organic chemistry. The distinction between the two disci ...

'' (2012-2014) and the '' Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry'' (2009-2012).

Personal life

Holland is a piano soloist and accompanist for choirs, vocalists, instrumentalists, and musicals in his spare time. He has also sung with choruses such as the

San Francisco Symphony Chorus The San Francisco Symphony Chorus is the resident chorus of the San Francisco Symphony (SFS). Background Established in 1972 at the request of then-music director Seiji Ozawa, the chorus first performed in the 1973-74 Symphony season. The SFS Chor ...

, and currently sings with the Yale Camerata. Holland is married t
Maggie Langford Holland
another Princeton graduate.

References

External links

Google Scholar Page for Patrick Holland
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